LAGOS MARCH 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sitting Presidents will no longer enjoy immunity in criminal matters if the alteration being proposed to the 1999 Constitution by the Senate sails through, The Nation learnt on Thursday. Also to lose immunity is the Vice President, Governors and their deputies in the impending alteration. This followed the second reading of a…
LAGOS MARCH 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-When Sen. Istifanus Gyang (Plateau-PDP) sponsored a bill to amend and pin down the minimum qualification for Nigeria’s presidential candidates and governors, he had no idea how far the piece of legislature will go if it eventually scales through. Now past its second reading, the bill may ultimately damage life’s dreams of…
LAGOS MARCH 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Accountant-General of the Federation Ahmed Idris appeared before a senate committee on Finance on Tuesday, March 10, where he gave a breakdown of how President Muhammadu Buhari‘s administration decreased the Excess Crude Account from the $2.2 Billion it inherited from Goodluck Jonathan’s administration to having $71.8 million in 2020. Idris revealed that…
LAGOS MARCH 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command of the Nigeria Police Force, Abuja has intercepted a Volkswagen golf car laden with a cache of arms and ammunition, while in transit, for supply to bandits operating in the neighbouring States The Commissioner of Police in charge of the Command, Bala Corona, disclosed this, in…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Coronavirus was declared a pandemic Wednesday by the World Health Organization as cases spread to at least 114 countries. “WHO has been assessing this outbreak around the clock and we are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity, and by the alarming levels of inaction,” WHO Director Tedros…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy struck in the agrarian community of Akungba-Akoko in Akoko South West Local Government Area of Ondo State on Tuesday night following the death of a police officer and his wife. The deceased policeman who was attached to Akungba Division of the Ondo Police command was said to have allegedly shot his…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The senator representing Niger South, Bima Enagi, has introduced a bill that seeks to ban the use and importation of generators in Nigeria. The bill, titled “a bill for an Act to prohibit/ban the importation of generating sets to curb the menace of environmental (air) pollution and to facilitate the development of…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-According to TeamTalk and various other sources today, Messi is now ready to try to help Ronaldinho by hiring a team of lawyers and paying as much as €4million to get the retired star out of Paraguay prison. The Brazilian legend has been in police custody following a case of alleged passport…
